Family invites community to come together for Kumanjayi Little Baby's funeral
Months on from the desperate search for five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby by hundreds of volunteers, her grandfather is inviting the community to come together once more for her funeral in Alice Springs later this month.
The family of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby, whose alleged murder sparked a massive search in Alice Springs, has scheduled her funeral for August 15. Her grandfather, Robin Japanangka Granites, a Warlpiri elder, expressed gratitude to the community for their support and urged them to attend her final farewell at the Alice Springs Garden Cemetery.
The funeral will commence at 10am and conclude at 1pm, with attendees encouraged to wear Kumanjayi's favorite color, pink, once more. Her remains were discovered five days after she went missing in April from a town camp south of Alice Springs, leading to one of the most extensive searches in the Northern Territory's police history.
Hundreds of volunteers and police worked together, scouring the dense bushland and searching the Todd River bed. Jefferson Lewis, 47, has been charged with Kumanjayi's murder and two other undisclosed offenses. The family is navigating cultural grieving, known as sorry business, and plans to hold another memorial service the day before the funeral.
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